I am so frustrated. Our power was out from 14:15 till 20:15. This seriously hurting my business. Getting my backup electricity sorted out is going to be a bit more than my budget if they take us down for 6 hours at a time!
I am so frustrated. Our power was out from 14:15 till 20:15. This seriously hurting my business. Getting my backup electricity sorted out is going to be a bit more than my budget if they take us down for 6 hours at a time!
Roelof Vermeulen (Entrepreneurship in large organizations)
Roelof Vermeulen| Rock flaps south africa
But I thought you had your gennie, and UPS now?
I finally understand exactly how they decide who to switch off!
Yep, I do, but I have people working in Pretoria, Cape Town and Knysna. I do not have the budget to buy gennies for them right now. Forgot, the bigger gennie is still not hooked up. I am waiting for my UPS and cannot risk loosing my computers with just hooking up the gennie. Even though they say it has a voltage regulator, I will rather wait for the UPS.
Roelof Vermeulen (Entrepreneurship in large organizations)
Roelof Vermeulen| Rock flaps south africa
that job interview in the USA is starting to looking more promising...maybe i should take it while i still can...before everyone else needs to leave...let me rather climb on the band wagon and rip the *ss out of everyone while there is still money...i have been watching the prices how they are escalating as the demand is getting bigger than the supply of anything from generators to batteries to invertors...changeover switches you name it... you name your price...
i have heard of people paying 3 times the normal price...and this will only increase as the demad gets bigger...i went today to get a price on a battery while i was at the counter the price went up by 100 rand and now with the so called new shipment arriving the price is set to escalate.
Can someone please shed some light on a bit of confusion some collegues and I are having in the office?
Where did all the power go...............three months ago there was no such thing as load shedding, or is that just something I missed.
How then can Eishkom and our "I'm sorry" or "No comment" Govt, say that it has to do with the economic growth. The ecomomy has actually slowed in the last few months, so where to now, and then also to say that this will go on for the length of time they claim, who is to fit this bill for those incompetants........the good old you know who.
Makes one think
Rgds Dave W
My opinion based on all the trash I have listened to over the past few weeks. They have been lying to us from day one with almost every single reason that they gave to support the current problem.
First of all, this has nothing to do with unexpected growth that they couldn't foresee. Our economic growth has been under the expected 6% for the past 4-5 years, so that was a lie.
The other reasons of unexpected increase of electricity use is also bs, because the peak use occurs during winter time.
I think the only 3 reasons I can see from this is the following.
Gross incompetence.
They continued to run all the power sources without proper maintenance, which means when the bubble burst late last year, they realised, oops, maybe we better run maintenance on all our stations to ensure this doesn't happen at a later stage.
Gross incompetence
Due to lack of expertise they suddenly awake on morning realising that the new junior engineer that the appointed was right, and they needed to actually get of their fat wallets and actually do some work for their bonuses, else the entire country will blackout.
The last one
They need to get Mbeki out of office and this is the best way for them to ensure that it happens, they did tell government this was going to happen, yet they didn't get the money to do so from them, so no one will even suspect that they are part of the ANC leadership struggle....... Howzit for a conspiracy theory?
Roelof Vermeulen (Entrepreneurship in large organizations)
Roelof Vermeulen| Rock flaps south africa
well there are people in this country who still think the white people took their big houses and fridges and stoves etc when we got here years ago so what do you expect...the goverment must think we will believe anything they throw at us... problem is there is NOTHING you and i can do about it...you just have to sit and wait until the workers start getting retrenched and the mines and big companies start closing down and the workers are effected...that why if you want things to start happening...put your staff on short time every time there is a power failure and watch how quick cosatu steps in they will decide enough is enough and then heads will roll and there will be mass action and the goverment will have make things happen.
as i mentioned before the old goverment did such a good job with the design of the electrical grid that they did away with the old ripple relay and all that has happened is the new goverment have just been running to failure.
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